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Impactstory

An open-source, web-based tool that helps scientists explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products—from traditional ones like journal articles, to emerging products like blog posts, datasets, and software.

Altmetric

A cluster of servers that watch social media sites, newspapers, government policy documents and other sources for mentions of scholarly articles, bringing all the attention together to compile article level metrics.

Takes into account all mentions and shares of articles published from November 2013 onwards in mainstream and social media, blogs, post-publication peer-review forums, bookmarking sites and platforms such as Reddit and YouTube.